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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Concludes that Cost-Effective Policies and Technologies Could Greatly Reduce Global Warming

A new assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes that the world community could slow and then reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) over the next several decades by exploiting cost-effective policies and current and emerging technologies.
Allan Rosenfield, Hossein Afzali and Two Organizations Honored with 2007 United Nations Population Award

Allan Rosenfield, Dean and Professor of Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, Hossein Malek Afzali, Deputy Minister for Research and Technology, Iran’s Ministry of Health and Medical Education, and two institutions, Algeria’s National Population Committee and Malaysia’s National Population and Family Development Board, have won this year’s United Nations Population Award.
Horizon International Makes Its Television Programs On Solutions Available On The Web

Horizon’s series of television programs entitled “One Second Before Sunrise” that bring to audiences stories of promising solutions to the world's most pressing problems are now available on the Web at www.horizoninternationaltv.org. 
UNEP’s India Solar Loan Programme Wins Energy Globe

After helping more than 100,000 people in 18,000 Indian households finance clean energy from their PV solar electric home systems, the United Nations Environment Programme’s Indian Solar Loan Programme has been honoured with a prestigious Energy Globe.
First Deep-Sea Observatory Being Established with Thirty-two Mile Cable Installed Off of Monterey Bay

Oceanographers have completed an important step in constructing the first deep-sea observatory off the continental United States.

Magic Porthole Coral Reef Preview Offers Videos, Games, Resources

Horizon International has created a way for young people to experience coral reefs through new and emerging media with the Magic Porthole™ experience.
Buildings Role in Combating Climate Change Focus of New United Nations Environment Programme Sustainable Construction and Building Initiative Report

The right mix of appropriate government regulation, greater use of energy saving technologies and behavioural change can substantially reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the building sector which accounts for 30-40% of global energy use, says a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Sustainable Construction and Building Initiative (SBCI).

Path breaking Methods for Improving Water Quality Earn American Professor the 2007 Stockholm Water Prize

Professor McCarty has defined the field of environmental biotechnology that is the basis for small-scale and large-scale pollution control and safe drinking water systems.
New open-source, user-friendly drug combination against malaria welcomed by Médecins Sans Frontières

MSF will start using the fixed dose combinations and replace the use of separate tablets in all of its projects where artesunate and amodiaquine is recommended and where efficacy for this combination remains high.
Record-breaking Methane Storage System Derived From Corncobs May Encourage Mass-market Natural Gas Automobiles

Researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia and the Midwest Research Institute in Kansas City have developed a method to convert corncob waste into a carbon "sponge" with nanoscale pores.

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